I’ve been using Xert for cycle/run testing for a while now, and it really has my numbers dialed. Recently Athletica set me a week of tests which I feel I don’t really need because xert has my cycle/run power pretty spot on. Is there a way I can cancel tests weeks. (Also who wants to do a FTP test!)
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Dear @Theolondon thank you for giving Athletica a try.
You can skip the test week when you start a training program.
I can see that your profiles are already nicely populated with power and pace data from cycling and running previous sessions. Curious to know a couple of things about your profile:
- It looks like with a bike ride on July 20th you established your max efforts between 10’ and an hour.
- another dominating session was that of 14th of July.
Testing week is proposed to populate the power profile with single max efforts to better establish your thresholds. Ai-coach is asking the same thing: “did you upload max efforts longer than 10’”? This might have effects on the estimated CP.
The reason I ask is that beyond 10’ of duration, AI coach does not find specific max efforts.
I’m curious to know what are the thresholds Xert established for you. 
Thanks again.
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Xert has been to at 300 which seems accurate. It was pulled from a. Maximal 7-8 min effort on the 14th July. Can I skip test weeks that are scheduled during the plan
There is no direct option to “skip test week” during the plan as you can do with the first week of testing. The best you can do is to replace test sessions using the Workout Wizard.
It is not entirely clear to me how CP can be estimated by a single 7-8 effort, especially considering that your 14th July session lasted more than 5 hours. During that session, efforts longer than 20’ were substantially lower than 300 W. So, the approach taken by Athletica might be different. In our opinion, if the power profile is populated with max efforts of different duration, the CP estimation is more robust. I understand 20’ AO and also the “power profiling session” might be quite taxing.
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